Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-23

enough to compass tbs keys, teach it how
TO pick out the meiodY. Let sll our
young men try this heavenly ait up0n
their nature. Those Who have gone iato
it fully have found in # illimita5le recye.-
ton and amusement. Dark Gays, stormy
nights, seasons Of sickness, business dis
astere, will do little toward depressing
the soul which can gsllop of over mu-
steal keys or soar in jubilsnt lay
1t will cure pain. l. Will rest
fatigue. Il will qIeN passion. It Will
revive health. II vii reclaim dissipation.
1t will strengthen the immortsl soul. In
the battle OF Waterloo, wellington saw
that the HighIauders were fslling back
He said: "Whst is the matter, there?"
He was told that the band of music had
ceased playing, and be cslled up the
pipers snd ordered them to strike up On
inspiritiDg air; snd no sooner did they
strike the air than the Highlanders were
| rallied, and helped 70 win the day. On,
| ye who have been routed in the conflicts
of life, try by the force of music to rally
your scattered battalions.
[ am glad 70 know that in our great
cities there is hardly g night in which
there are not concerts where, with the
best musical instruments and the sweet
est voices, people may find entertainment
PatroniZe such entertainments when they
are offered you. Buy season tickets, if
you can, for the "Philharmonic" and the
"Hsndel and Haydn" societies. Feel
that the dollar snd : half or two dollars
| that you spend for the purpose OF hearing
an artist play or sing is q profitable in
vestment. Let your Steinwsy Hslls and
your Academies OF Music roar with the
reclamation OF sppreciative audiences
assembled at the concert Or the orstorio.
Still further: l commend, as worthy
OF their support, the gymnasium This
Institution is gaining in favor every year,
and know of nothing more free from
dissipation, or more calculated TO recup-
crate the physical and mental energies.
While there are good many people who
have employed this institution, there is
vast number who are ignorant Of It's eX-
celIences. There are men with cr&mped
chests and Wesk sides and respondent
spirits who through the gymnasium
might be reused up to eXubeTance and
exhilaration Of life. There are many
Christian people respondent from year to
year, who might, through such al insti-
tuition, be benefited in their spiritual re-
lations. There are Christian people who
seem TO think that it is good sign to be
poorly; and because Richard Baxter and
Robert II sll were invalids, they think
that by the same sickness they may
come to the same grandeur Of character
I want 10 tell the Christian people Of my
congregation that God will hold you re-
sponsible for your inValidiSm if
IT IS YOUR FAULT,
and when through right exercise and
prudence you might be athletic as we'll
The effect of the body upon the soul you
acknowledge. Pat 2 mcn Of mild dis
position upon the animal diet of which
the Indian partakes. and IL g little while
bis blood will change its chemical pro-
portions. It will be3Ome like unto the
blood of the lion or the tiger or the bear,
while his disposition will change, and be-
come fierce, cruel, and uUreIenting. The
body has powerful effect upon the soul.
There are good people whose ideas Ct
heaven are all shut out with clouds CT
| tobacco smoke. There are people who
dare to shatter the physical vase in
which God has put the jewel of eternity
| There are men with great hearts and in
tellects in bodies worn out by their own
Observation-Disclosures machinery capable
of propelliDg Great Eastern across the
Atlantic, YET fastened in a rickety North
river propeller. Martin Luther wss so
mighty for God first, because he had
noble soul, and secondly, becsuse he had
o muscular development which would
have enabled him to thrash any five Of
his prosecutors, II it had been Christian
so TO do. Physical development which
merely shows itself in fabulous lifting, or
in perilous ropew.lking, or in a pugilis-
tic encounter, eXcites only our contempt;
but we confess to great admiration for
tne man who hiss great soul in an ath-
letic body-every nerve, muscle snd bone
OF which is coneecrated to right uses.
On, it seems to me outrageous that
men through neglect fhould allow their
physical health to 60 down beyond repair.
ship which ought with all sail set and
every man at his pest to be carrying
rich cargo for eternity, employing all its
men in stopping up leaksges! When you
may through the gymnasium work off
your spleen and your righteousness aud
one-half OF your physical and mental all
ments, do not turn your back upon such
O grand medicament.
Still further: I commend 10 you q
large class Of parlor games end recrea-
tions. There is a way OF making our
homes hundred-fold more attractive
than they are cow. Those parents can
not expect to keep their children away
from outside designations unless they
make the domestic circle brighter than
anything they can find outside Of it. Do
no., then, sit in your home surly aud
unsympathetic and with half condemn
story look because Of the sportfulness of
your children. You were young once
yourself; let your children be young.
Because your eyes are dim and your
ankles sre ssiff do not deuounce sportful-
ness in those upon whose eyes there is
the first lustre and in whose foot there is
the bounding Joy Of robust health.
thank God that in our drawing
rooms and in our psrlors there
are innumerable games and sports
which have not upon them the least faint
Of i1iquity. Light up all your homes
with innocent hilarities. Do not sit
down with the rheumatism, wondering
how children car 20 on so. Rather THANK
God that their hearts are so light, and
their laughter is go free, aud that their
cheeks are SO rudy, and that their eX-
pectations are so radiant.
THE MIGHT WILL COME
soon enough, and the heart break, and
the psng, and the desolation-it will come
soon enough for the dear children. But
when the storm actually clouds the SKY,
it will be time enough for you to haul out
your reef tackles. Carry, then, into your